Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-13
usorsING PARTICULAR"
w A Joke Was Regarded as
Part of History.
Erom Rarpe,Is Feekll

HdFDe1~S HeeNtVs
:. that part OF old Amherst village,
ara East street approaches the Haoley
tbere Is a locality known as Nine
corner. A hundred years ago THIS
90 ,lot then a tangled mass OF briers
1hr,sb wood. belonged to Farmer Tod
chose Weather-gray homestead
W. stone's throw distant, and one DAY
,er Todhunter resolved TO clear OH
rICt aud make a green of 1t, as traVeI
ifwav lately had increased ana II was
goll to have the CROSSROADS appearing
Fanny. The process OF clearing the pLoI
niad ~ boulder standing, i'll truth, on
arU snot il now occupies, and as 1t
" fine smooth rock Of very regular
30 and beautiful milky color II
fr,od a GOOD idea to Farmer Iodhunter
4 cave il there as an ornament LOT tue
E.,r1re green. But this he would never
ave. d0ne had he known what was soon
n hanpen in consequence. what more
EsturaI than that tue passing VehluIe
<bould pull up for moment peslue the
konsa while the curious occupant de-
tn'Iod ~ call Farmer IOdhunter from
r. hYrn or his wife from the dairy, ana
~ yhat that stone on the green
r. n1t there for? Farmer Tod
A "n;ar,s boulder after a certain length
lime became a standby JOKE with
no surrounding neighbors, VINO tnem-
Lives were sometimes called up TO
tnsWer the questions of the inquisltlVe
t.nyoIors.whtn The Todhunters did not
Sannen TO be at home; and in TACT the
$ablltation OF the perpleNing stone spread
4 y, mat Farmer Todhunter at last resolved
f. settle the matter once Tor ali Oy plac-
T. a sign above the boulder on the green
-b8t should serve, as 1t were, 10 warn Gu
SIosltv off the premises. 1t was neatly
4 alnted T sign, bearing IN tnese Worus:
$.Noihiug Particular Under lbis stone"
H. make matters worse, tne VIII oi Ihe
beis bboring county town. happening one
NV to mass that way and hearing the
[gbole STORY. published tue following jest
III the county journal;
il NAV interest our readers to know
Abat the grave OF one OF King fhilip's
Arothers. long known to exist in Amherst
Village. at that part called Nlne-acre
<orner, has lately been most approprI-
Sstply marked. A smooth, white boulder
IN ss been placed on end and above the
fyave- and on a head-b0ard, OF somewhat
beculiar construction, the inscription,
il Nothing Particular Under This stone"
ksppears in legible characters. This chIef,
tnNothiag Particular" as some Will re-
member, gained MS unique name IN an
pdd manner. When young Indian, he
8was calling one day at the house OF
aPelham farmer, whom he frequently Wis
siled. and he saw the housewife pass with
4 = bowl of hot liquor. What have you
S,berep' asked the Indian. "NOthing
particular" was tue woman's response.
Vine young redskin insisted on tasting,
and from that day forth when calling at
&tbe farmers he always asked for some
81 nothing particular" Thus 1t came
about among the white people that he
Twas known by a name which we nave
seen even Outlasts his death.
A hundred years had passed over Nine
acre Corner, and one summer day not
Hong ago while DR.. lnderwick (the cee-
|brated arch8Oiogist and ethnOlogist OF
philadelphia was exploring pile of an
Gent newspapers, alter the fashion OF
original Investigators nowadays, his eyes
lighted upon the Identical paragraph
describing the buriaI-place of the famous
brother of King Philip, Nothing Par
ucular." AS tue doctor was summer
ling in Amherst with the especial pur-
pose OF studying the legendary history OF
the Indians, this find seemed q direct gift
from the heaven OF original investiga-
tors.
The stone was remembered, but it's real
story had worn from toe family memory
IN the friction Of hundred years, and
DIR. lnderwicks newspaper discovery
was hOnored as genuine ancient history.
Destiny, when mas its humorous moods
as well as the rest of us, seemed to nave
made up its mind that if Farmer Tod
hunter would not honor the Indians
grave some of his descendants should.
Iney indeed take very good care of it,
ana the traveller that way now may pause
10 let his horse nIbble on the green while
he reads the inscription which DIR. Inder-
wick caused to be cut III the smooth,
white boulder: Here rest the bones OF
that singularly named Indiana brother
oil Hing Philip Nothing Particular"